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The Steam Machine is a cool little console that\u2019s about as powerful as a PlayStation 5, according to my colleague Sean Hollister\u2019s in-depth review<\/a>. But one area where it lags behind is with its earlier version of AMD FSR upscaler: It\u2019s just not as good as it should be. Yes, it can sharpen low-res graphics to make games look higher-res, but the PS5 (and especially the PS5 Pro<\/a>) render a clearer image in motion with some games we compared.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n That\u2019s not great news for the Steam Machine, especially since it\u2019s launching at $1,049 for the 512GB version \u2014 a higher price than anyone hoped for. But there is some hope that games on the console will look somewhat better in the future. Valve\u2019s Pierre-Loup Griffais told The Verge<\/em> that it\u2019s working with AMD to bring FSR 4<\/a>, its latest bag of upscaling and performance-improving tools, to the Steam Machine.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n In an email, Valve adds that FSR 4 is \u201ccoming soon\u201d but that it \u201ccan\u2019t say more about timing.\u201d This is all encouraging to hear, since the last we heard in the \u201cwill-it-won\u2019t-it\u201d drama, the likelihood of AMD bringing FSR 4 to devices with RDNA3 integrated GPUs (such as the Steam Machine) was a little bleak<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n FSR 4 contains numerous enhancements that improve how compatible games running with the upscaler look in motion (including AI-assisted frame generation), which will hopefully give the Steam Machine a definitive edge over Sony\u2019s six-year-old, $650 console. Valve tells us \u201cIt should offer a significant improvement in upscaling graphical quality.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Additional reporting by Sean Hollister<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The Steam Machine is a cool little console that\u2019s about as powerful as a PlayStation 5, according to my colleague<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34954,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_animmysite_disable_animation":false,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/11\/258049_Valve_2025_EverythingTimeStudio_0014.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C10.805700988947%2C100%2C78.388598022106&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending-sports-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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